The Airbnb’fication of Cape Town
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
In the 1970s, young left-wing activists fought clandestinely for Senegal’s democratization under Senghor’s brutal regime.
In the context of climate apartheid, a new scramble for resources, and debt crises, the Global South must find another way to be human.
Small scale farmers in Tunisia are caught between international actors and a domestic policy that protects corporations.
The predatory tech giant is at the center of a heritage site land grab, pitting indigenous and environmental activists against city authorities.
Somalia’s political landscape is increasingly fragmented due to regional and clan differences. Is this the end of the centralized state and a unified, national identity?
While Ethiopia’s leaders chase shiny new projects that are grand monuments to themselves and modernity, they ignore the country’s rich, natural heritage.
France is not a new problem for Africa. Since the 19th century, its stood in the way of the continent’s self-determination.
Recent violence across the Eritrean diaspora is being instrumentalized by populists. But the violence is a desperate cry for attention and requires the Eritrean opposition to seize the moment for regime change.
In response to the Johannesburg fire disaster, the South African government has announced a ‘politically free’ commission of inquiry. But there is no such thing.
In Kenya, elected office does not represent a duty to represent ordinary citizens, but an opportunity for personal enrichment.
Held in Nairobi this month, the inaugural Africa Climate Summit is an important step for the continent’s response to climate change. Still, the disasters in Libya and Morocco underscore that rhetoric and declarations are not enough.
That South African political parties across the spectrum were quick to venerate the politician and Zulu prince Mangosutho Buthelezi, who died last week, demonstrates that the country is still attached to Bantustan ideology.
A conversation with members of Sudan’s resistance committees and Magdi elGizouli.
The city of Gqeberha in South Africa is an example of how water is increasingly becoming a commodified resource, benefiting the powerful and depriving everyone else.
Western leftists are arguing among themselves about whether there will be bananas under socialism. In Africa, however, bananas do not necessarily represent the vagaries of capitalism.
In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable.
Since 2019, two separate political processes developed simultaneously in Sudan: one at the state level and the other at the grassroots. Today’s war originates in the predominance of the former over the latter.
In France, Black and Arab minorities are excluded from the country’s liberal values—and then treated as threats to them.
The pathologization of ‘migrants’ in Tunisia and France shows how race and poverty shape our understanding of belonging.